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Well, horse people too. (I confess I would've liked to see a storyline about her trying to open the White House stables back up. The lines about losing Lady could've just as easily been about Buttercup.) I appreciated the nod to Gordon, but none for Waffles? The business with the 6-week-old puppy was odd; why not just put her back with her litter until she's a little older then? Her breeder wouldn't keep her for that much longer after weaning whether she went to the McCords or anyone else. (Indeed, I'd bet they already had a buyer lined up for her before they realized they had a chance for one of their dogs to be FDOTUS.) But yeah, all said a shelter dog was the obvious politically-correct choice.

Oh, I agree, but at least I mostly get the point they're trying to make. But this one with the kid smirking like he got something over on the parents...why is that supposed to sell me on their paper towels?

So the variant of these with the dog was cute, but this one - what's with the kid clearing his throat and his smug little smile at the end? I don't get what the takeaway is supposed to be from that.

Same. Her perspective on the subject was creepy in its very matter-of-factness, which I liked - my favorite moment from her character thus far. Enjoyed the episode overall, despite the plot holes.

I flashed back to the early Supernatural episode where the couple gets lost, spots a creepy scarecrow, has car trouble, and is forced to spend the night in a weird small town. Things could have been a lot worse than weird dreams, guys! (Though I agree that having this pairing crammed down our throats has long since gotten old.) Also guessed that the 'good' personality was the one being created by the seizures as soon as they saw the first MRI, it's ridiculous that the characters didn't even consider the possibility. (Although upon further thought, what would have been the kinder course of action if they did realize it before doing the surgery? If you interpret the non-racist seizure personality as a distinct character, would he prefer to continue to exist if he could only surface occasionally, and then in the body and life of such a vile person? From the early scenes, it didn't seem as though he had enough sway to keep Hades from being best-known as a prominent member of the hate group, so the notion that he'll be even worse now that he doesn't have another personality to keep him in check doesn't really fly either.)

As another poster above put it: Some people should just not have pets. Any animal you bring into your home, even if it's well-trained or supposedly low-maintenance, is going to create some mess and inconvenience, almost certainly in ways you didn't expect beforehand. If you can't roll with that, the pet is usually the one who suffers.

Considering the first-scene conversation with Max and his fleeting assistant, I was assuming the solution would be a program that matches returning servicemen/veterans with time on their hands to visit patients in this kind of need. Because yes, placing dogs with people who are barely ambulatory would create a lot more problems than it would solve - starting with how most dogs need to be walked more than twice a day. Or, as many have said, just hand out personal panic alarms. I called the mass hysteria, but then, I called it on Chicago Med when it was still just the first patient showing symptoms. All medical shows have to do it sometimes, just weird that two shows on the same network don't compare notes to make sure they're not overlapping too closely.

Will this one ever go away? From the adult throwing up her hands in disgust at having her phone taken away to the little moppet scowling at her grandfather - sure, the phones are the only problem, and these charming people will have a wonderfully meaningful visit with the grandparents as soon as they're device-free.

That was exactly my reaction - I also wasn't crazy about the new girl emphasizing that Steve's dog is an important line of defense. Why make him a target?

I'd been putting this off while I caught up on other new shows because the previews were setting my teeth on edge. Didn't find the episode itself any more enjoyable - rather than an ABC vibe, I'm a actually getting more of a USA one, in the quirkiness-as-substitute-for-actual-character-development sense that most of their recent shows trot out. But I'll stick around to see if it evens out, largely because of Romano and Andy Flynn. And yes, the feel-good scene was ridiculous - I don't know whether I'm more annoyed that she got off too easy, since she was actually an accomplice to the crime, or at the judge's blithe confidence that she'll have no problems from here on out ('fierce mama energy' is all well and good, but it's not going to keep her from having to pay through the nose for non-relative childcare).

Graveyard worker here - agreed on both points. Switching back and forth constantly is the real hell, and overnighters get to choose whether to sleep mornings or evenings.

I agree that dinner-only first dates are high on the awkward end of the scale. Some kind of activity being involved lets you get in the rhythm of interacting with somebody first without having to think too hard about it. Might be less applicable here because Shaun and Astrid already know each other at least a bit, but still.

True! I catch/throw/hold a ping-pong paddle (albeit all those things badly) with my right hand (even though I was raised by a fellow lefty who does them with her left hand, go figure). Had thought the watch thing was more universal, and also never heard the reason about winding it, but both make sense. Interesting!

That's a lefty-righty thing, or so I was always taught. You put the watch on the wrist opposite your dominant hand so it doesn't drag against the table as you write. (Irony: I wore my watch on my right wrist for so many years that I got accustomed to wearing the occasional bracelet on my left. Now I never wear watches but wear bracelets more often, so I end up with something scraping the table anyway.) I love this one. Pleasant to hear the song, reasonable connection to the feature it's hyping.

Same. I work during airtime and tape to watch the next morning, but didn't see any additional spoilers after that one, so if I'd just managed to dodge the yahoo headline...sigh. Lol, similar situation - my housemate usually watches my tape with me; sometimes she already watched the show live, sometimes she didn't. She watched yesterday. So we both knew while watching the tape, and were awkwardly trying to speculate like we usually do in case the other didn't. I doubt James would've thrown, but I doubt the producers would hint him off even more, given what this has done for ratings. Sad that he didn't match KJ's total, but knowing that if he had, it probably would have been in fewer than half the episodes, is startling in itself. Although James might've suspected Emma wouldn't bet the farm after wagering conservatively on the DD, it could also have come down to how confident he felt about the category - I don't recall whether he's been strong on Shakespeare in the past. Either way, she played a great game, befitting someone who effectively tried to write a Jeopardy algorithm. Lovely name too ;) (edited to fix crappy formatting...I will say, this forum's quote function is about the mobile-unfriendliest I've ever run across.

I'm really hoping DON'T MESS WITH MY DISCOUNT won't be on rotation for a long as I fear it will be. Not good for the blood pressure.

Reminds me of something I found really interesting about that scene: when this happened, every demon in the room knelt down involuntarily...except Maze. Possible that Lucifer held on to enough control to specifically exempt her from his will with the BOW DOWN DEMONS bellowing...but knowing him, I kinda doubt it. Possible that Maze being in her own body (as opposed to possessing someone) gives her more autonomy. Possible that Maze is another tier of demon entirely, so he can't control her as easily. ...or, and naturally this is my favorite interpretation, it's a deliberate nod to Maze's character development that she no longer sees herself as subservient to him. Despite some nice moments, she didn't have much of an independent arc this season, so I'll take what I can get!

Agreed. She wouldn't have abandoned her post as Auntie Maze, but it felt like a letdown (especially if this is the series end) that Chloe is the only one Lucifer had a goodbye scene with.

Although Maze and Eve are fun, I wish she got more storylines that weren't about love interests and love triangles. Did enjoy her getting to sing (was that actually the actress?). Same. Although considering what's happened to that show, I was more horrified than amused...

Linda continues to have the best reactions to the characters that wander into her life. "It's like meeting a dinosaur." I was expecting Amenadiel to either volunteer to babysit Trixie or quiz Chloe or Dan about parenting.

Agreed, as was Chloe thanking her for it and Lucifer vowing to protect 'the little urchin'. Trixie has been seriously underused this season.

Wasn't expecting so much of a time-jump. Remy as a character notwithstanding, her wings were gorgeous. Best design for any of the angel wings in this series.

Yeah, I've been thinking that this was another thing that should have happened once Chloe accepted that Lucifer was real: if heaven and hell are facts, and souls do continue to exist after death, you wouldn't immediately think about what that means in terms of loved ones you've lost? But even if Amenadiel had to spell it out for her, I still teared up. Agreed that that aspect of her character got the brush-off. Even if she felt more fond about Abel than Cain, Lucifer still oversaw the former being tortured for pretty much all of existence. In the episode with the poisonings/self-mutilations, Lucifer waited until Chloe took off after Psychotic Peter Burke, then kept cutting himself as she got farther and farther away, until finally the wound didn't open and he could safely go into the room with the poisonous gas. So that would seem to imply quite a distance. On the other hand, Chloe doesn't know much about how this works yet, so she could have just asked if it would help him heal if she could sneak upstairs.

Eve feels kind of like a crossbreed between Candy (before the reveal that she was putting on an act) and Abel. It's working pretty well. I cheered when Maze pointed out that Chloe isn't 'the only human who knows'. Although Linda's busy dealing with her own stuff, she does consider Chloe a friend, and it was a weird omission that Linda didn't reach out once Chloe got back to town; as a friend AND a therapist AND someone who's been through the exact same thing, she should have realized they really needed to talk. Amenadiel asking about wings on the ultrasound and Linda laughing it off for the OB's sake, hahaha metaphors, then turning to grab him by the collar 'you think he might have WHAT' was gold. Almost as hilarious as Maze's part in that scene.

Chloe trying to keep Lucifer from drinking anything really highlights how pointless it was to enlist her in the first place. Lucifer owns a club constantly packed with anonymous people where he swans about drinking on a regular basis, and if they've researched him they'd know that, but Chloe is the only person they've ever thought to have drug him? While I'm probably in the minority in that I like what are generally considered filler, case-of-the-week episodes, I agree that the Awkward Dance Of Secret Betrayal would have been dragged out much longer if the season had more episodes to work with, so it was a relief to be spared that. This. Similar to the scene in the flashback last episode, with the priest saying that Lucifer would constantly try different personas and mannerisms to win her trust; that was actually a clever argument to make considering Lucifer's longstanding habit of 'I know, I'm going to act in THIS random manner this week!'.